Narrow Street
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Narrow Street is a narrow road running parallel to the River Thames through the Limehouse area of east London, England. It used to be much narrower, and is the oldest part of Limehouse, with many buil
Early Georgian terrace on Narrow Street, with The Grapes public house to the right
Looking the other way from the above picture shows four of the high rise buildings of Canary Wharf, Sept. 2007.
Charles Napier Hemy:The Limehouse Barge-Builders (Narrow Street from the river)
Thames side of Narrow Street (James McNeill Whistler, Limehouse, 1859)
Francis Bacon (artist)
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Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, an
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…poet Ernest Dowson, actors Ian McKellen, Steven Berkoff and Cleo Rocos, the politician David Owen, and the authors Matthew Parris and Andrew Sinclair. Francis Bacon lived and painted at number 80 (below); and the writer, photographer and television presenter Daniel Farson lived at number 92 for several years. In…
Bacon in the early 1950s
Crucifixion (1933)
Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963
Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X, 1650. Although Bacon avoided seeing the original, it remained the painting that most affected him, and one to which he referred over and over.